In the ancient, pre-Google days, if someone wanted to get sports scores, or chat with a “naughty friend”, or obsess over your favorite celebrity, you couldn’t just type into a browser - the world wide web was a long ways off. But never fear! Just call this number, pay a incidental (read: exorbitant) fee per minute, and you’re guaranteed to find what you’re looking for.
Ray teaches Rob about the meteoric rise of early 1-900 number entrepreneurs; why cats should stay away from phones; Santa’s (w)rapping skillz; and how seedy scammers gave a bad name to this new telephonic frontier.
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Eddie Murphy on Larry the Lobster's Fate - SNL
Winston Cup Hotline Commercial
Naughty 900-Number Ads from the '90s
Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis 1-900 Jr. Vampires
Hulk Hogan Hulkamaniac 1-900 Hotline Clip
Let's Make a Deal 1-900 Commercial
